3punish yourselfBLAMEto make yourself feel guilty or bad for something you have done 〔因为做了某事而〕责备自己
If you fail, don’t punish yourself.
如果失败了,不要责备自己。
Examples from the Corpus
punish yourself• Perhaps you felt guilty about ignoring a charitycollection, and so decided to punish yourself?• She was very sorry for her mistake and was therefore punishing herself by agreeing to marry him.• Do not attempt to punish yourself for not making adequateprogress.• He himself does nothing wrong yet he still punishes himself for other's wrong doings.• Do you punish yourself or feel guilty if you fail?• Such resistance to being well necessitated the idea of unconscious forces of guilt; the patientssought to punish themselves through illness.• Sometimes he punished himself when others were inclined to exonerate him.• However, Gottlieb did not punish herself with guilt.
nTHESAURUS
punish to do something unpleasant to someone because they have done something wrong or broken the law
penalize (also penalise British English) to officially punish someone, especially by taking away their right to do something or by limiting their freedom in some way
New laws will penalize firms that continue to pollute the environment.
discipline to punish someone who has broken the rules of an organization that they belong to or work for
Officers are expected to discipline soldiers who do not keep their uniforms in good condition.
come down hard on somebody informal to punish someone or criticize them severely
The judge came down hard on Harris, saying that his crime was ‘inexcusable’.
make an example of somebody to punish someone so that other people are afraid to do the same thing
Athletics officials felt they had to make an example of him for using banned drugs.
teach somebody a lesson informal to do something in order to show someone that they must not do something again, when they have behaved very badly
I didn't want to hurt him - I just wanted teach him a lesson.
Maybe a night in jail will teach him a lesson.
make somebody pay (for something) informal to make someone wish they had never done something, by making them suffer
We should make him pay for all the mischief he's caused!
punish somebody for (doing) something• In the third, the Padres punished Brown for a felony -- he walked Hitchcock -- to score twice more.• A teacher can not be punished merely for being a member of such an organization.• We don't punish people for crimes if they are insane, because we have decided that they can't help it.• Institutionally, there are no mechanisms for punishing some one fordeviantbehaviour of any kind.• I tried punishing him for it, but that only made it worse.• She wondered if fate had just punished her forpickingwildflowers.• Janson says she's being punished for publicly criticizing the department.• She wanted no part of some one trying to punish her husband for something she obviously regarded as between him and her.• And Sinatra punished him for the rest of his life.
be punished by/with something• Any business that operates within the investmentarena that is not authorised can be punished by imprisonment or fines.• Conversely, they were punished with a lowerstandard of living and consequent lower status if they chose to have large ones.• Everyone had to wait their turn or be punished by filling in a long complicatedquestionnaire two hundred and sixteen times.• The child is punished by not being allowed to play in the next school baseballgame.• The victims could be blamed and punished with impunity.• This violated the immigrationban and was punished with one to three months in prison.• When he eventually came down, he was punished with two months in solitaryconfinement.• Whom was she really punishing by behaving this way?
Originpunish
(1300-1400)Old Frenchpunir, from Latinpunire, from poena; → PAIN1